[newgeezer]

Sooooo $400 gooses the economy??? Doing what??? It's not a blip on the radar screen...IMO.

That's $920 for that proverbial "average" family having 2.3 kids. Our 2 will get us $800, and we're going to spend it on a long-overdue vacation.

It's $3200 for my close friends with 8 kids. He's planning to buy a truck.

Most people will spend it. Retailers will love it. It'll certainly show up in the economic indicators.

Are we blipping your radar, yet?

[Ga Rob]

Not really.....

I won't disagree with you that people will spend the money. I just don't think it does much for the economy, it's not enough in my opinion. Maybe I just hate this "rebate" for worthless people...soooo much.... who get part of my money, it should be me who stimulates the economy with my money!!!!

[Jesse]

"...we're going to spend it on a long-overdue vacation.
Are we blipping your radar, yet?"

Yep. Now a bunch of people who didn't pay the tax in the first place get to take a vacation or buy a new tv, courtesy of people like me without children who subsidize your child tax credit. Why would that tick me off?

At least you could say, thank you. Or do just want me to send along another couple of hundred bucks so you can buy your kids new vacation clothes too? We could just cut out the IRS as middleman and I could send along a money order, would that be ok?

Spineless GOP.

[SouthParkRepublican]

I’m still way back on this thread trying to catch up but does anyone really think we need to give low income individuals another reason to procreate?